Anton Steinpilz offers a thoughtful and in-depth analysis of characteristics the neoliberal novel in The New Inquiry.  He considers Ed Park’s Personal Days as part of that emerging project.  “Here Park manages to articulate a narrative point of view you might call first-person corporate — which, incidentally, he marshals throughout the whole of Personal Days to great effect, giving new impetus and texture to Dilbertian anomie. The resonances with Tretyakov’s biography of the object are obvious; but whereas Tretyakov points toward overcoming workers’ alienation, Park simply characterizes such alienation in terms consistent with 21st-century work life. Tretyakov imagines a novel without a hero. Park imagines one without a reader.”  For the entire essay, click here.